demonstratability

demonstratability

English

Noun

demonstratability (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of demonstrability
   • [1881 August 4, ““Truth” Puzzle No. 130. Assorted Specimens—Good and Otherwise. Arithmetically Progressive Paragraphs—Each Word containing One more Letter than the preceding Word.”, in Truth: A Weekly Journal, volume X, number 240, London, page 173:

     O do not find fault Editor, because frequently fruitless endeavours (provokingly polysyllabic) unequivocably, unquestionably ante-demonstrate multi-literative indistinguishable impracticabilities hyper-nonsensibility, indistinguishability! anti-demonstratability!—Seedy Jock.]

   • 1969, Helmut Metzner, editor, Progress in Photosynthesis Research: Plastid Pigments. Electron Transfer, page 788:

     The existence and demonstratability of the signals parallels the photochemical activities of the bacteriochlorophyll molecule.

   • 1971, R. D. Vergara, Effects of Steering and Suspension Component Degradation on Automobile Stability and Control. Part II. Technical Report. Volume 1. Literature Review. Final Report, page 29:

     One of the least satisfactorily resolved aspects of MVI concerns the scientifically sound demonstratability of its connection to safety.

   • 1977, Archiv für Geschwulstforschung, page 462:

     After the decolorisation of preparations already diagnosed (primary diagnostics) and subsequent renewed judgement after a PAS-reaction test, a significant precisation of the Papanicolaou group III could be reached by a more exact demonstratability of the cell nucleus structures.

   • 1978, Aurel Feţeanu, Labelled Antibodies in Biology and Medicine, second edition, Abacus Press, page 93:

     Addition of small amounts of glutaraldehyde (0.01—0.05%) improved the morphological condition but a concentration over 0.1% glutaraldehyde to a solution of 1% paraformaldehyde greatly reduced the demonstratability of either intra or extracellular immunoglobulins and complement [268-a].

   • 1978, Sport Aviation, page 16:

     This program recognizes members for reaching a level of demonstratability, while encouraging additional aerobatic proficiency.

   • 1979, Annales: Sectio paedagogica et psychologica, page 96:

     Models are not equivalent to demonstratability in the sense of empiricism.

   • 1980, Proceedings, American Institute for Decision Sciences, page 366:

     Conversely, expressive products (or one which lends itself to considerable demonstratability of status effects) would have high salience on the social norm component, but low on the attitudinal component.

   • 1980, Shock Tubes and Waves: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Shock Tubes and Waves, Jerusalem, July 16-19, 1979, page 43:

     The principal pitfalls lie in the demonstratability of relevance, i.e., that the proposed simulation experiments do faithfully reproduce some aspects of the phenomena to be studied, and that their isolated examination can be theoretically (or experimentally) justified.

   • 1985, Current Military Literature, page 157:

     […] planning operational use before embarking on R & D, ergonomics, explanation facilities (by which an expert system makes the basis of its decision or recommendation intelligible to the user) and demonstratability.

   • 1986, UNIX Review, page 30:

     In an independent survery, over 350 dealers recently rated Real World #1 in user friendliness, manufacturer support, demonstratability, dealer margins, features, technical performance, documentation and adaptability

   • 1987, INFOR, page 229:

     One part of the concept is tangibility, or result demonstratability (Zaltman et al., 1973, p. 39).

   • 1987, Proceedings of the Summer Computer Simulation Conference, page 892:

     Hart, Audley [Ref 3] and Warmbrod [Ref 8] have tried to devise criteria that address the issues raised by the nay sayers and that include simplicity, testability, evolutionarity, resilience, demonstratability, separability (fault isolation) etc.